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(No Model.)

W. MQMANES & G; E. LUM.

MBTALLIG RAILWAY (moss TIE. No. 476,404. Patented June '7, 1892.

lVILLIAM MOMANES AND GEORGE E. LUM, OF SUMMIT, NEYV JERSEY.

METALLIC RAILWAY CROSS-TlE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,404, dated June 7, 1892.

Application filed January 19, 1892. Serial No. 418,552, (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM llICMANES and GEORGE E. LUM, citizens of the United States, residing at Summit, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metallic Railway Cross-Ties, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to an improvement in metallic railwaycross-ties; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of parts more fully hereinafter described, and definitely pointed out in the claims.

The object of our invention is to provide means for securly clamping the rail in place on the cross-tie in such a manner that it will be practically impossible forany of the parts to become misplaced or loosened by the vibration of the rails. This object we accomplish by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like letters of reference indicate like parts in the several views, and in which Figure l is a longitudinal central section of the end of a tie embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view, and Fig. i is a perspective view of one of the securing-plates.

In the drawings, A A represent the rails, and B a trough-shaped metallic cross-tie having the upwardly-projecting sides a and the downwardly-projecting end flanges (L2, which are adapted to prevent the longitudinal movement of the tie on its bed. The sides a preferably project up at right angles to the bottom of the tie, which is formed with drainopenings a therein.

The rails A rest in suitable recesses C 0, formed in the upper edges of the sides of the tie, of a width equal to the width of the base of the rail and of a depth equal to the thickness of the outside edge of the flanges of the base of the rail,the upper faces of the flanges being inclined. On either side of and adjacent to the recesses the cross-tie is formed with the inclined portions D inclined downwardly in opposite directions from the opposite sides of the recesses, the inclination of these inclined portions being the same as and on a line with the inclined upper faces of the flanges of the base of the rail.

Shoulders d are formed in the cross-tie where theinclined portions terminate.

E are securing-plates of a shape conforming to the interior section of the cross-tie, form ed on theirlower ends with hooks e, adapted to engage with the under side of the bottom of the tie through openings 6' when the parts are in position. These plates are. formed on their upper edges with bolts 6 F are rectangular clamping-plates having apertures f therein, through which the bolts 6 project, formed on their outer edges with shoulders f which engage with shoulders cl, the ends f of the clamping-plates fitting between the inner faces of the sides of the cross-tie.

G are packing-blocks below the rails and upon which the same rest, the blocks also fitting between the securing-plates on the opposite sides of the rails and being of such a width as to prevent the hooks e from slipping out of the openings 6 when the parts are in position.

It will be seen from the above description that when the parts are in position, as plainly shown, and the nuts f tightly forced down against the clamping-plates, which are prevented from sliding off of the rail-flanges by the shouldersf engaging with the shoulders (Z and from any sidewise movement by the ends f engaging between the inner faces of the sides a, it will be practically impossible for the rail to become misplaced without entirely removing the clamping-plates. hen the rails are to be placed in position, the clamping-plates are removed. The bases of the rails are then fitted in the recesses in the cross-tie and rest directly on the packingblocks below. The hooks of the securingplates are inserted through the apertures in the tie and these plates then elevated intoa substantiallyvertical position, carrying the hooks below the bottom of the tie and the bolts up above the bases of the rails. The securing-plates in this position act as stops of fastenings for the packing-block. The clamping-plates are then adjusted on the bolts, and, owing to the inclination of the cut-away portions of the tie and the base of the rails, the plates have an even seat; but to prevent the lateral movement of the rail we preferably construct the plates of a width slightly greater than the distance between the web of the rail and the shoulder (I, so that as the nuts are forced down onto the plates the rails are tightly bound in place not only to their seats,but also to prevent side vibration.

We are aware that many minor changes in the construction and arrangement of the parts of our device can be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without in the least departing from the nature and principle of our invention.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a metallic railway-tie, the combination, with the tie having vertical side edges formed with seats for the rails and inclined bearings extending in opposite directions on opposite sides of the seats and shoulders at the ends of the bearings, of clamping-plates having extensions on their lower ends fitting between the flanges of the tie and their outer portions engaging with said shoulders and their upper edges arranged to engage with the rails, and bolts passing through the tie and plates and having nuts on their ends, substantially as described.

2. In a metallic railway-tie, the combination, with the tie having vertical side flanges and downwardly-extending end flanges, seats formed on the side flanges, and inclined bearings formed on the flanges adjacent to the seats, of packing-blocks within the tie between the seats plates on the inclined bearings arranged to engage directly with the rails, securingplates between the flanges formed with hooks on their lower edges passing through suitable openings in the tie, bolts on the upper edges of the securing-plates passing through the clamping-plates, and nuts on the bolts, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we attix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM MOMANES.

GEORGE E. LUM.

Witnesses:

E. G. POTTER, EUGENE O. PIERSON. 

